Weapon-R Secret Intake - Is this a scam?

daewooluvr · Post by **daewooluvr** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 4:49 am

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayI ... 7954776549

I have never heard of this before and it looks fishy, anyone else?

daewooluvr · Post by **daewooluvr** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 5:02 am

wow answered my own question...

http://www.weapon-r.com/store/agora.cgi ... nc=search2

it's legit. I likey!

lanos2001 · Post by **lanos2001** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 5:07 am

my question is where is the second air flow coming from? do you have to by a ram air hose for it? if so then most filters are already like that or you can just rig it up like that. its seems kinda fishy to me.

nick

daewooluvr · Post by **daewooluvr** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 5:08 am

No, there is two tubes in the intake.

Another benefit is the inner tube is colder air.

lanos2001 · Post by **lanos2001** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 5:18 am

oh okay. i didn't notice anything about two tubes in it. i guess it would work.

the only thing left to do would be to buy one and try it out.

nick

Post by **PrecisionBoost** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 5:50 am

I'd be inclined to wait for an independant evaluation of the intake.....Sport Compact car (or someone similar) will probably do an "intake shoot out" where they test a dozen different intakes on the same car with the same dyno.

daewooluvr · Post by **daewooluvr** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 2:15 pm

Weapon R is a pretty reputable company.

However, their claims of a 15% increase in horsepower may be a bit inflated.
Even on a stock Lanos that's what 16hp from just an intake.

bluesheepbrian · Post by **bluesheepbrian** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 3:32 am

daewooluvr wrote:Weapon R is a pretty reputable company.

However, their claims of a 15% increase in horsepower may be a bit inflated.
Even on a stock Lanos that's what 16hp from just an intake.

Your right 15% is kind of alot for intake, but is it possible?

daewooluvr · Post by **daewooluvr** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 5:25 pm

bluesheepbrian wrote:
daewooluvr wrote:Weapon R is a pretty reputable company.

However, their claims of a 15% increase in horsepower may be a bit inflated.
Even on a stock Lanos that's what 16hp from just an intake.
Your right 15% is kind of alot for intake, but is it possible?

15% on a stock Lanos would be 15.75hp increase. I highly doubt that we'd see that much just from this intake. I'd be willing to bet it's more in the 7-8hp which would be around 7-8% increase. Only half of what they're claiming. However, with other supporting mods done before this (ie. P&P heads, bigger TB, P&P intake and exhaust manifold) I'm sure we could see a higher increase.

Fishbone · Post by **Fishbone** » Sun Feb 20, 2005 3:36 pm

Has anyone tried this yet? If so, how was the fit? Any installation "issues"? Considering ordering one for my Nubira.